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Stef Bierwerth, Michael Joseph's editorial director for crime and thrillers, said she has bought a "fantastic" debut novel: Tim Weaver's Chasing the Dead a psychological thriller "in the vein of Michael Marshall and Mo Hayder". Bierwerth bought UK and Commonwealth rights in a two-book deal from Camilla Bolton at the Darley Anderson Literary Agency.
Chasing the Dead is to be the first in a series featuring missing persons investigator David Raker. Bierwerth described it as, "one of those rare, spine-tingling thrillers that draws you in from page one, simply doesn't let you go and creates an atmosphere which stays with you for a very long time".
Chasing the Dead will be put out as a paperback original in early 2010.